Postgame thoughts

[DirtBagZ]

Post game thought...any joy from the victory was tampered by Gibb's post game were basically Brunnell is going to be our QB. Get ready for a loss in Big D...Brunnell is NOT a NFL caliber QB anymore, a servicable back-up maybe, but not a starter. I don't recall him hitting a single reciever in stride, like Ramsey did with Santa Moss, nor does he seem to look off the DB's, hell Orton looked more poised and even pumped faked, Brunnell locks-on his receivers like a rookie. It is going to be a long year again.

Gibbs just cannot except the fact that he made a mistake with Brunnell. His postgame all emphasized was that Brunnell does not make mistakes, which is fine and good, but in the modern NFL you have to stretch the field and take chances with down the field throws...as soon as Brunnell stepped out on the field I felt like I was in the movie Ground Hog day, except this time it was watching last years offense all over again. I hope I am wrong...I really do, but my gut instinct says otherwise.

[skinnyfan]

Originally Posted by DirtBagZ

Post game thought...any joy from the victory was tampered by Gibb's post game were basically Brunnell is going to be our QB. Get ready for a loss in Big D...Brunnell is NOT a NFL caliber QB anymore, a servicable back-up maybe, but not a starter. I don't recall him hitting a single reciever in stride, like Ramsey did with Santa Moss, nor does he seem to look off the DB's, hell Orton looked more poised and even pumped faked, Brunnell locks-on his receivers like a rookie. It is going to be a long year again.

Gibbs just cannot except the fact that he made a mistake with Brunnell. His postgame all emphasized was that Brunnell does not make mistakes, which is fine and good, but in the modern NFL you have to stretch the field and take chances with down the field throws...as soon as Brunnell stepped out on the field I felt like I was in the movie Ground Hog day, except this time it was watching last years offense all over again. I hope I am wrong...I really do, but my gut instinct says otherwise.

God I wish I could've written that post.....took the words out of my mouth.

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by DirtBagZ

Post game thought...any joy from the victory was tampered by Gibb's post game were basically Brunnell is going to be our QB. Get ready for a loss in Big D...Brunnell is NOT a NFL caliber QB anymore, a servicable back-up maybe, but not a starter. I don't recall him hitting a single reciever in stride, like Ramsey did with Santa Moss, nor does he seem to look off the DB's, hell Orton looked more poised and even pumped faked, Brunnell locks-on his receivers like a rookie. It is going to be a long year again.

Gibbs just cannot except the fact that he made a mistake with Brunnell. His postgame all emphasized was that Brunnell does not make mistakes, which is fine and good, but in the modern NFL you have to stretch the field and take chances with down the field throws...as soon as Brunnell stepped out on the field I felt like I was in the movie Ground Hog day, except this time it was watching last years offense all over again. I hope I am wrong...I really do, but my gut instinct says otherwise.

Mine too. This is a trainwreck.

[redrock-skins]

While its nice to start off the year with a win, I just get the feeling that unless our Def holds opponents under 10-12 pts each game, we are in trouble.

Our offense may give up more points to the other team than our def.

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by redrock-skins

While its nice to start off the year with a win, I just get the feeling that unless our Def holds opponents under 10-12 pts each game, we are in trouble.

Our offense may give up more points to the other team than our def.

UNLESS our D? You have to be kidding?

[skinsguy]

I think Gibbs felt a low scoring game was enough to beat the Bears, but no matter how bad the Cowboys might look today, we are going to need to take some shots down field.

Just think, the game really should have been 9-0!

[skinsguy]

Gee, I'm listening to the post game conference right now, and I'm not sure where you got that Gibbs is starting Brunell for the season. When asked about Patrick Ramsey or Mark Brunell starting, Gibbs replies, "I don't know, we'll have to look at it after everybody is healed up and see."

Sounds to me like we're waiting to see how injuried Ramsey really is.

[DirtBagZ]

Originally Posted by skinsguy

Gee, I'm listening to the post game conference right now, and I'm not sure where you got that Gibbs is starting Brunell for the season. When asked about Patrick Ramsey or Mark Brunell starting, Gibbs replies, "I don't know, we'll have to look at it after everybody is healed up and see."

Sounds to me like we're waiting to see how injuried Ramsey really is.

I was listening to the radio, AM 980. Also Joe Jacoby, who I think knows Joe Gibbs a lot better than you or I made this inference from what Gibbs said. Trust me though I would be more than happy to be wrong...if I am wrong I will jump for joy...feel free to say I told you so.

I just do not want to see Brunell starting, and as I said before I will be extremely happy if I end up being wrong.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

In all fairness to Brunell, that INT that was called back (due to defensive interference) was not all on him. It appeared that the INT was made possible by the pass interference. Moss had his jersey pulled down over his shoulder pads - resulting in Moss not being where Brunell likely expected him to be. Brunell didn't make many mistakes, but he didn't look too much different from Brunell of 2004; he threw a lot of short hitches and just a few deep balls. Ramsey looked like he has throughout his career - he throws a pick and then looks pretty good.

I hope Gibbs decides to keep Ramsey in because he gives our offense a spark (and a few INTs). Brunell doesn't make as many poor throws as Ramsey, but he doesn't throw as many good balls as Ramsey either.

Portis looks like a stud (even if you take away that awesome 41-yarder).

The defense looks damn good, but where was the pass-rush the first three quarters?

The offensive line looks very solid and it will only improve with time (as Jansen's hand heals and the unit gels).

The game-planning looked light years ahead of where it did in week one of 2004 (although not as good as it did in week 17 of 2004).

[Beat the Cowboys]

I'm still worried about our inability to get in the end zone.

Our defense looked very solid although the Bears O isn't too impresive.

Can't wait till next Monday.

Beat the Cowboys!!!!!!!

[htownskinfan]

Originally Posted by Beat the Cowboys

I'm still worried about our inability to get in the end zone.

Our defense looked very solid although the Bears O isn't too impresive.

Can't wait till next Monday.

Beat the Cowboys!!!!!!!

I can wait,the cowboys will kick our ass once again,this game shouldnt have been close,and gibbs playcalling at the end sucked,once again giving a team time to go down field only needing a fg to win,if def doesnt get the turnover,bears probably get the fg,if Cedric benson starts the game,bears would have won it,if bledsoe gets the kind of time Orton had hes going to pick us apart,dallas has just tied sd at 21 all,on the road,they can score,we cant ,we always have at least 1 big turnover a game to give the other team easy points,mnf in dallas,crowd pumped as hell,it probably wont be close
{I really hope I'm eating these words tuesday}

[saden1]

Two thought's:

1) Ugly game!
2) We can't win 10 games with that shitty passing offense.

[MTK]

Wow, the kneejerk overreactions are comical.

We put up 323 yards of offense today, the points weren't there but we had 1 TD called back and another that should have been a score if Cooley took his route about 1 foot further into the endzone.

We took some shots down the field, drawing a big PI call and Moss broke lose for a nice 52-yard gain.

We ran all over a very tough run defense, Portis and Betts combined for 33 carries for 162 yards, that's a nice 4.9 per rush average. Again, this was against a pretty stingy Chicago run D. We killed them in TOP with 34:15 to 25:45.

We did give up 3 sacks, but overall the pass protection was very good, and the run blocking was stellar.

On 3rd downs we were 6/16 for 38%, you'd like to see that a little higher but it's still not a bad day. Counting in the 1/1 on 4th downs that's an overall conversion rate of 41% on 3rd and 4th downs.

It wasn't a pretty win, but I think we were sadly mistaken if we thought the Bears were just going to roll over on us. They have a very good D and running game. They might not pile up the wins this year but I think they're going to give alot of teams fits.

When you look at the scoreboard and only see 9 points things don't look so good. But if you take a deeper look at the numbers, the offense was moving the ball but wasn't able to capitalize, simple as that.

[AnonEmouse]

For the guy that mentioned Denver kicking our butt. I watched the Dolphins game and if they had a proven RB in (i.e. Ricky Williams) the scoreline would have looked even worse. Denver suck big style on both sides of the ball. Plummer had NO time in the pocket, Lelie couldn't get open and they lost their starting RB and CB for the game early and their other starting CB for a good portion of it.

We can beat Denver with good D and mistake free O. Like we apparently played today.

Dallas? SD can't stop the run or pass, but are outscoring the Pokes because their D can't stop the Chargers either. Our D can stop Dallas, and if our O runs the ball all over them, then we can out score them too.

[htownskinfan]

taking a deeper look at the numbers dont mean shit,we need to score points,avoid big turnovers,piling up stats is just that,I dint think the reactions are comical,what was comical was the pregame predictions,simple as that